Guide



Feb. 19, 1924.

W. R. BULL GUIDE Filed Oct. 31 1922 11v VENTOR WilliamRBull BY M @M A TTORNE Y Patented Feb. 19, 19 245.

UNITED,

WILLIAM R. BULL, or srnrnerinnn,iaasseonosnrrs GUIDE.

Application filed October 31, 1922.

Serial No. 598,20e.

(FILED UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1883, 22 STAT. L, 625.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. BULL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Springfield, county of Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Guides, of which the following is a specification.

The invention described herein may be used by the Government, or any of its ofiicers or employees in prosecution of work for the Government, or by any other person in the United States, without payment to me of any royalty thereon, in accordance with the act of March 3, 1883.

The subject of this invention is a guide designed to properly guide the cartridge belts of machine guns.

When guns are mounted in pairs, especially when they are designed to be fed in the usual manner from one side, it becomes necessary to feed one of them from the inside and, since there is no space between the guns for mounting the cartridge belt container it is essential that some means be provided for mounting the container on the outside of one of the guns and to guide the belt so that the same may be fed into the opposite or inner side of such gun.

The present invention has been devised for the purpose of guiding a belt from the container in such a manner that a belt may be fed into the opposite side of the gun from that on which the container is supported. Specifically, I provide a guide plate, adapted to guidethe belt to the gun, provided with means for clamping the guide to the frame of the gun support and with a bracket for mounting the belt container in place.

With these and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel arrangement and combination of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

A practical embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a gun mount showing the attachment in place thereon;

Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of a guide constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 3 is a front end elevation; and

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the same.

Referring to the drawing by numerals of reference:

In carrying out my invention I prefer to provide a plate 1 formed with a laterally extending curved upper end 2 on the rear edge of which rises a flange 3 to retain the belt in proper position when the gun is in elevation. The plate 1 is preferably bifurcated for a suitable distance adjacent its lower end, as indicated at 4 and to this plate is assembled as by rivets 5 a belt container bracket 6, of standard form.

Assembled to the plate and bracket as by rivets 7 is a clamp for securing the guide to the frame of a gun mounted, the preferred form of clamp herein shown comprising two substantially U-shaped metal strips 8 and 9 which are bound together at one side by the upper rivets 7 and which are spaced apart at the other side to receive the bar or portion of the gun mount to which they are clamped by clamping screws 10.

It will be seen that the guide is readily adapted for either a right hand or left hand mount by changing the edge on which the flange 3 is formed. The plate 1 is of sufficient extent to permit the belt to be guided over the lateral extension 2 above the gun and then brought downwardly and fed into the gun at the side opposite to that at which the belt container is hung.

I claim:

1. A belt guide, embodying a plate formed with a curved laterally extending upper end and an upstanding flange on rear edge of such extension, a belt container bracket 86- cured to the upper face of the plate, a clamp secured to the inner face of the plate and means for binding the clamp to a gun mount.

2. A belt guide, embodying a plate formed to guide a belt to be fed into the opposite side of a gun above and over the gun, a bracket secured. to the plate for supporting a belt container and a clamp carried by the plate for clamping the guide to a gun mount.

3. A cartridge belt guide, embodying a 10 clamp for clamping to a gun mount, a guide secured to the clamp for guiding a belt to be fed into the opposite side of a gun over the gun and means carried by the clamp for supporting a belt container.

4. A cartridge belt guide, embodying a clamp for clamping to a gun mount and a guide plate carried by the clamp for guiding a cartridge belt over a gun, whereby the belt may be fed into the opposite side of the gun.

WILLIAM R. BULL. 

